Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)
Maker(s)
Pottery:
Unidentified Southwark Pottery
(Probably)
Entities
Categories
Description
Tin-glazed and painted earthenware dish in the shape of a nymph or Pomona reclining in a bath
Buff earthenware press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple. The oval bowl is moulded in the shape of a bath, and has a high foot ring pierced by four holes. The interior is moulded in relief with a reclining naked woman wearing a yellow drape, and holding a cornucopia full of fruit in her right arm, and an inverted ewer in her left from which water flows to create a pool around her invisible feet.
Notes
History note: An unidentified owner in Norwich; Mr Stoner, London, from whom purchased by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher for £7 on 4 November 1908 .
Legal notes
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 8.9 cm
Length: 19.5 cm
Width: 12.2 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
17th Century, Mid
Charles I
Commonwealth
Circa
1640
CE
-
1650
CE
Note
The Pickleherring, Montague Close, and Rotherhithe potteries were operating in Southwark at the estimated date of production
The form was based on a French lead-glazed earthenware dish attributed to Bernard Palissy (c. 1510-c. 1589/90) or his followers. French tin-glazed examples were made in Nevers, in the first half of the 17th century.
Tin-glazed and painted earthenware. Press-moulded in the form of a woman reclining in a bath, traditionally identified as Pomona, a nymph who loved gardening and the cultivation of fruit . A copy of a French lead-glazed dish probably modelled by Guillaume Dupré (c. 1574-1642) and made in Claude Berthélemy’s pottery at Avon near Fontainebleau about 1600-10.
School or Style
Mannerist
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, yellow, brownish-orange, and manganese-purple.)
Materials used in production
bluish-white
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Press-moulding
: Reddish-buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple.
Tin-glazing
References and bibliographic entries
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.1420-1928
Primary reference Number: 71975
Old object number: 2871
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 29 April 2025
Last processed: Tuesday 15 July 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
